By Forrest Stone

Herald Staff Writer

100 years ago: June Roberts of Florida enclosed a 30-acre lot with “hog wire” and created a pasture for recently-purchased thorough-bred sheep, “at an expense of something like $200.”

75 years ago: Users of metal containers in La Plata County were warned by the war production board that “an urgently critical situation” existed in steel and that “immediate and extensive use of substitutes for steel containers, particularly drums, must be undertaken.”

50 years ago: The five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Clark, of Durango, tragically drowned in the swimming pool of the Driftwood Motel in Denver.

25 years ago: Police cited a 43-year-old man who was weaving on the 900 block of East Third Avenue for drunken driving and released him “to mother.”

Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.